Word: omnibuses
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Last week the principle of national origins came under heavy fire from Senate liberals. Up for debate and disposition was an omnibus immigration measure sponsored by Nevada's Pat McCarran. In essence, the bill proposes no real departure in policy. Product of almost three years of study and hearings by the judiciary committees, it is designed to bring thousands of piecemeal immigration statutes and regulations (accumulated since 1798) into one handy, compact code. In the process, it would remove some glaring inequities, e.g., all Asiatic immigrants would be eligible for citizenship, where previously Japanese and certain others were barred...
Encore (Rank; Paramount] brings Somerset (Trio, Quartet) Maugham back for a merited cinematic reprise with an ex pertly packaged omnibus of three enter taining short stories: i ) The ironic Ant and the Grasshopper, in which a ne'er-do-well playboy (Nigel Patrick) marries the third richest girl in the world, buys back the family estate his hard-working brother (Roland Culver) had been forced to sell, repays Culver the ?1.300 he had borrowed, and at the last minute, true to form, cadges a fiver from him. Typical tongue-in-camera sequence: the elegant playboy, to shame his brother...
...last week: an American civilian to take charge of the whole kit & caboodle of the U.S. defense buildup in Europe outside Ike's field of military command. He is William Henry Draper Jr., 57, New York investment banker and professional troubleshooter. President Truman appointed Draper to a new omnibus post: 1) senior U.S. civilian official, with the rank of full ambassador, in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and 2) head man in Europe of the new Mutual Security Agency, which has replaced the Marshall Plan. Draper will be the supreme civilian spokesman for the U.S. in Europe...
Beer drinkers will probably not be taxed extra for out-of-state brew, G.O.P. Senator Sumner G. Whittler predicted yesterday. The beer tax controversy is part of the State Senate hubbub over the House-approved $20,600,00 omnibus tax bill...
Thanks largely to a fine performance by Charles Laughton as a bumbling, middle-aged widower trying to woo his baby's pretty governess, The Blue Veil's first episode could hold its own as part of an omnibus film like Quartet. Governess Wyman, a widow who has lost her own baby, gently parries Widower Laughton's attentions and loses him willingly to his designing secretary (Vivian Vance), who thereupon cuts her adrift from the household and from the little toddler she has grown to love...